current state and recent developments

... Natural and Man-Made Catastrophes in the United States: Current State of the Market and Regulatory Reforms, Risk Management and Insurance Review, 10: 179-220 Cummins, J D., D Lalonde, and R D ... national index, five regional indices, and three state indices, for California, Florida, and Texas For further discussion, see Cummins (2005) CAT BONDS AND OTHER RISK-LINKED SECURITIES 25 Interestingly, ... insurance and reinsurance markets CME currently lists contracts on hurricanes in six U.S regions: the Gulf Coast, Florida, Southern Atlantic Coast, Northern Atlantic Coast, Eastern United States, and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... cultivated land, dryland rangelands, and coastal and marine systems are now degraded, and the degraded area continues to expand [4] Changing Land Use and Land Cover Current rates of land cover ... Systems: Wetlands, Rivers, and Lakes • Dryland Systems: Deserts, Semiarid, and Dry Subhumid Rangelands • Forests, Including Woodlands and Tree Plantations • Marine and Coastal Systems • Island Systems ... Cultivated Mountain Dryland Coastal Island Forest and woodland Population growth in percentage Cultivated Mountain Dryland Polar Net primary productivity Coastal Island Forest and woodland Polar Gross...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... England and Wales Environment Agency Water resources in England and Wales – current state and future pressures Supplying people with water 4.1 Current pressures Where people live in England and ... in England and Wales – current state and future pressures Using water in England and Wales 3.1 Using freshwater resources One way to consider how much we use water resources in England and Wales ... in England and Wales Environment Agency Water resources in England and Wales – current state and future pressures 11 4.3 Household metering Over 30 per cent of households now have a meter and pay...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... soil and vegetation must be removed so the site can be graded and a sand blanket placed and compacted Field instrumentation for monitoring and evaluating embankments is vital to examine and control ... depends on the types of soil, the size and shape of the mandrels, and the soil macro-fabric The sand blanket system is used to expel water away from the drains and provide a sound working mat for ... horizontal and the corresponding smear zone equivalent permeability, respectively, α and β are geometric parameters α and β calculated by combination of bs, bw and B At a given effective stress level and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 17:20

... Curative treatment of oesophageal carcinoma: current options and future developments Radiation Oncology 2011 6:55 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient ... Gebski et al revealed that both SCC and adenocarcinoma benefit from preoperative radiochemotherapy [31] The problem with some of these trials is that - by current standards - low to moderate doses ... useful with a sensitivity and specificity of 71% (95% CI, 62%-79%) and 93% (95% CI, 89%-97%) [51,52], which is crucial for the differentiation between locoregional and systemic disease In adenocarcinomas...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 43, pp.18901900 Crevier, D., Lepage, R, 1997 Knowledge-Based Image Understanding Systems: A Survey Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 67 (2), pp 61-185 ... the top-down and for the bottom-up interpretation steps In doing so, the user defines how to find the possible occurrences of a specific concept, and how to choose among the concurrent occurrences ... standard version of InterIMAGE comes with a suit of basic, generic operators This suit of operators was constructed using primarily the functions and methods present in the TerraLib library, and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/10/2015, 08:46

... Wilmington, Del) and then cooled by applying ice for minutes before and after photosclerosis The Laser settings were: fluence between and 10 J/cm2, variable pulse length between 10 and 50 ms, and a spot ... by both clinicians and patients, and in some cases, the standard of care Clinicians need to learn more about constantly updated technology and apply newly discovered methods and protocols to clinical ... 0.1% gentamicin and 0.1% betamethasone Oral surgery This group comprised patients The Laser settings were: fluence between and 15 J/cm2, variable pulse length between 20 and 60 ms, and a spot diameter...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... Outlook has also been tested and evaluated [18] Rios and Zha [19] also experiment with SVMs, along with random forests (RFs) and naive Bayesian filters They conclude that SVM and RF classifiers are ... Applications and the Internet, 2003, pages 166-169, 27-31 Jan 2003 [19] G Rios and H Zha Exploring support vector machines and random forests for spam detection In Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, ... stream, and filter it based on a universal rule set for all users Advantages of such an approach include centralised administration and maintenance, limited demands on the end user, and the ability...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:25

... regional and foreign-owned banks is the same in both periods, and is based T on their classification in January 2010 Hence the changes in funding composition are unaffected by the recent merger and ... financial crisis and new issuance was scarce between mid 2007 and mid 2009, as demand from private investors fell away (Graph 6).5 Much of the issuance by Australian entities during late 2008 and early ... deposits and wholesale debt funding and the shift in their funding mix from securitisation to deposits, which is currently a relatively expensive source of funding Banks’ Lending Rates and Margins...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... Technologies and Recent Analytical Developments, Edited by Fernando Sebastian García Einschlag and Luciano Carlos p cm ISBN 978-953-51-0882-5 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals ... Textile mill products Lumber and wood products Paper and allied products Chemicals and allied products Petroleum and coal products Leather and leather products Primary and metal industry industry ... Industrial plant and thermal-electric-plant (Water intake, Reuse, and Consumption, 1964 11 12 Waste Water - Treatment Technologies and Recent Analytical Developments Adsorptive, chemical and incineration...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... conceived and wrote the review WB, JDR, EDW, and VC participated in literature search and selected appropriate articles PMH and HDS participated in design, coordination, and writing All authors read and ... pathophysiology, and treatment type, dosing, and timing: a comprehensive review of recent and future developments Annals of Intensive Care 2011 1:32 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit from: ... and SLED the same level of evidence [49], although there are only very few randomized studies comparing SLED and CRRT, whereas there are large numbers of randomized studies that compare IHD and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... Silva, Ernande B da Costa, Terezinha J R Câmara and Lilia G Willadino Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil Biofuel Production – Recent Developments and Prospects deficit and soil salinity) ... upon health and similarity in height and leaf number, and then were transferred to pots made of polyethylene with 10 kg maximum capacity, and containing washed sand substrate The sand was covered ... simultaneous wasteland reclamation, fuel production, and socioeconomic development in degraded areas in 20 Biofuel Production – Recent Developments and Prospects India Need, potential, and perspective...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 08:20

... associated with inflammatory states and to stimulate prostaglandin (PG)E2 and leukotriene production development of radiographic and clinical OA of the knees, hands and lumbar spine Running did ... limiting field and practice time and performance level The Clearwater Osteoarthritis Study [14] recently evaluated the association between acute knee injury and OA Among the 1436 men and women aged ... articular tissues and named aggrecanase-1 and aggrecanase2 [83,84] These enzymes belong to the ADAMTS family and were further designated ADAMTS-4 and ADAMTS-5, respectively Recent reports have...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... regulation, Australia has eight states and territories, each with separate legislation for both professional and 'poisons' regulation This is complicated further by current funding arrangements, ... training and education necessary to carry out these tasks, and to ensure that these skills are fully utilised in practice Although podiatric surgeons already possess the necessary training and skills, ... step, reflecting the current health policy direction and a recognition of the advances in allied health clinical practice Policy development leading to further regulatory change and eventual implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... LM, Metcalfe DD, Prussin C: Frequency and characterization of antigen-specific IL-4 and IL13 producing basophils and Tcells in peripheral blood of healthy and asmathic subjects J Allergy Clin ... the contact between allergens and the cells responsible for symptoms (i.e, those possessing the ability to release histamine) Until recently, basophils were neglected and only considered to be circulating ... histamine release (and as a consequence the CD63 expression) and the upregulation of CD203c The rise in CD63 or CD203c expression (measured by fluorescence / Phycoerythrin) before and after allergen...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... contributions CX, AZ, AY and DS conceived the ideas of this article CX, AZ, AY and SZ collected and compiled the data, and drafted the manuscript CX, AZ, AY, SZ and DS interpreted the data and revised the ... Administration and the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry Following the introduction of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT Statement) in 1996 [28] and its revised ... covered by private health insurance and living in the states of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland [6] Acupuncture can be provided by both acupuncturists and general medical practitioners...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... parties It will be especially important to sustain and expand the research infrastructure that has been built over recent years, and develop more rapid and efficient ways of conducting clinical trials ... close interplay among multiple parties, and most notably NIH, FDA, industry, and academic investigators [43] As discussed, for drugs that are currently marketed and still covered by patent, pediatric ... medications in different stages of development and marketing While integration and coordination of efforts and activities between government agencies and industry is critical, there are other parties...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... to other complications Recent reports shed light on this issue and are reviewed below Materials and methods This is a selected review of recent literature and summary statements of the American ... Research.[12] Blumetti and coworkers [13] from the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas provide a 35 year retrospective and commentary on the present state of the Parkland formula This standard for ... his experience and presents a resuscitation program incorporating feedback, communication requirements and clinical targets (Figures and 2) Accuracy and practicality of the Parkland formula are...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20